A Gap of Sky

A Gap of Sky
The short story A Gap of Sky is written by Anna Hope in 2008. It is about youth and everything that comes with it, such as school, high expectations and drugs. It is about a young student called Ellie, who lives in London. She has a paper due the next day which she has not started on because she was out partying and doing drugs the night before. She goes for a walk in the heart of London to clear her head and figure out what she is supposed to do with her life.
Ellie is nineteen years old and is a student at a university in London. It seems that she is living in a dorm on campus, since she describes how she has to walk down a hall to get to the bathroom. Ellie is no taking her education seriously. She has gotten a warning from the university saying that if she does not start taking school seriously, she will be kicked out. Therefore it is very important that she hands in her essay, which she has not started on yet, and is due the next day. Ellie is very stressed out and she escapes from it all by taking drugs and going to parties. Instead of taking responsibility for her actions and choices, she blames her parents. “It was their fault she was doing this bloody course in the first place.(p. 2, l. 65-66)”.
When Ellie stops at Russell Square, she sees a glove on a spike, and this brings out a feeling of freedom and hope in her. She feels completely free and instead of continuing to look for a printer shop, she enters the British Museum. Later she stops at a shop, where she finds a red stone that reminds her of one her mothergave her right before she left their family to be with another man. Ellie had shoved the stone away and not understood that it was a token of her mothers love. She had taken it for granted back then, but now she realizes that her mother loves her. She has had abandonment issues since her mother left her father, but now she lets all…...

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Ellie is the main character in the story. She attends University College London, but she does not take her studies very serious. The text says: “It was their fault she was doing this bloody course in the first place.” So it seems like her parents have forced her to go there. She does not care much about her education. She is very close to expulsion. “She remembers the letter, the stomach-lurching letter. If this lack of application continues we will have no choice but to reconsider your place on the course.” She most likely skips classes and papers and parties instead. In the beginning she wakes up after a party. It is Monday afternoon which means that she had been partying all Sunday night. She cannot remember last night clearly......

...A Gap of sky
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There is only one character in this story. Her name is Ellie and she is presented as a girl who likes to party. She is already shown this way in the start of the story, where she is waking up from a wild party the day before. "Cans, some cans of lager, and them more coke arriving and - K, didn't they do some K?" This quote shows the reader, what type of girl Ellie is. There are no doubt that she loves to party, and maybe too much. I would also like to highlight an another quote "Will they really kick her off the course? Or will she have to repeat the year?" This quote indicated, that she has been taking drug and drinking a lot for a longtime now. She has probably recieved a lot of warnings from her school, so it isn't the first time that she is in this bad position. I believe that the author would like us to feel a little bad for her actually. Because she is all by herself, she doesn't have any parents to make limits for her anymore. "Her mother......

...A Gab of Sky
“It is dark, but the wrong dark. Something is wrong with the dark”, sounds the opening sentence in the short story “A Gab of Sky” which is written by Anna Hope in 2008. Ellie is parties all nights with some friends. In these parties Ellie and her friends take several drugs. Because of these parties and drugs and the alcohol, Ellie is having trouble getting up of her bed and do her assignments. Because she knows there will be consequences if Ellie does not make her assignments. “She needs to get some printer ink, if she's going to do this essay. And if not? Will they really kick her off the course? Or will she have to repeat the year?” (P.2, ll.47-48)
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Ellie comes sometimes to the thought that she can’t do the assignment or get printer ink. And when these thought crosses her head, she is fading, getting grey. But the thoughts of that the University College London kicks her out frightens her and give her some kind of confidence to complete her mission. She can’t get her head together, all the pain is killing her; “Ellie's head is throbbing and her skull feels as though it......

...A Gap of Sky
Fuck! Fuck is a word which is used a lot among young people. Especially when talking about your life. Fuck it! School can wait, let’s party tonight! But it isn’t always that easy not to care. Life isn’t a walkover. It can be pretty tough sometimes because what is right and what is wrong? – This is the question! Sometimes you end up confused and lost, as an outcome of too many bad decisions and too little guidance and support. But what is a bad decision and how do you figure it out? Sometimes all you need is a little something that will show you the answer – Motivation leads you to the right thing to do! This is some of the Topics that we are dealing with in the short story called A Gap of Sky.
A Gap of Sky is a short story written by Anna Hope and published in 2008. It is about a 19-year-old girl struggling against the inner voice of her, which is telling her to cut out her studies and have fun instead. By having fun I mean drinking and doing drugs. Because that’s what Ellie is good at. She has been sent to London by her parents to study, but she is not taking it as serious as her parents are expecting of her to do, because she has been partying all night and can’t remember much. She wakes up and starts stressing because of an essay that she has to write, about Virginia Woolf. But she needs printer ink, so she goes out into the world searching for printer ink. On her way searching for printer ink she experiences a lot.
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...English essay – “A Gap of Sky”
Amalie Thomsen
Introduction:
The title of the short story is “A Gap of Sky” and is written by Anna Hope in 2008. Anna Hope is an English actress and writer. She is from Manchester and was educated at Wadham College, Oxford. The short story is fiction, but could still take place in real life. The main theme is identity formation.
Analysis:
The story is written with a 3rd persons view: “Ellie reaches a hand out […] She takes the glass, stumbles forward…” The narrator therefor has an omniscient point of view, and knows everything about the main character, Ellie.
Characters:
In the story we have the main character, Ellie, her friend Toby (who we do not meet, but hear about) and the mother (we do not meet her either).
Ellie:
The main character, Ellie, is 19 years old: She is only nineteen […], and lives in London: […] this part of London.
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She a type of person who postpones many of her things: She’s got to get this essay in. […] They won’t close till sixish. It will all be fine.
Ellie is a complex character because a part of her develops and she becomes more grown up. At first she has a very difficult relationship with her mother, but after seeing a little stone, she suddenly realizes that she has not been fair to her.
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...A Gap of Sky
-by Anna Hope
It is in the youth you construct your final identity. This can be very hard to handle for some youngsters. It's important to find a balance between the society's and family's expectations and your own hunger for freedom and dislodgement.
This short story by Anna Hope is about Ellie, a nineteen-year-old girl who lives in London by herself. She is addicted to drugs, especially coke, but at the same time she is studying at the university. Her life is sort of dual which leads to problems – it's difficult for her to take care of her studies in the daytime and at same partying the entire night and be a drug addict.
We only follow her life about an hour, where she has to buy ink to her printer, but still she is able to go through the entire range of emotions – fear of death, rebelliousness, joy, dejectedness, freedom and so on.
The story begins in medias res with the sentence: “It is dark, but the wrong dark. Something is wrong with the dark.” This creates a very gloomy atmosphere right from the beginning. The description of her waking up with swollen cheeks, drinking water from a pint glass, peeing in the sink etc. gives the impression of a person who is out of her depth and living on the edge. It's plain that she lives a very unhealthy life – she has inflammation of her eyes and her chest is hurting. She only remembers glimpses from the night before, which indicates that she has been very affected by drugs and alcohol, and it appears that......

...A Gap of sky
The short story “A Gap of sky”, by Anna Hope, is about how youth often is characterized by life, desire and a feeling of freedom and invincibility. The setting is in today’s London and the author starts in medias res “It is dark, but the wrong dark. Something is wrong with the dark” (l.1). Because of this the author establishes, by his use of words such as not just dark but the wrong dark, a rather gloomy mood.
The story is about how being young and, although freedom is within reach, responsibility and expectations are right behind you, reminding you of reality. The youth is a vital part of your life providing background for what the personality of the person concerned ends up to be. Every person has different ways of looking at freedom. Some people like to take a run in the nature, open their minds and others do drugs to escape from reality.
In “A Gap of Sky” the girl called Ellie deals with the issues of drugs, freedom and responsibility. She does a lot of coke and seems to be addicted and needs it so she can write her essay. “and then more coke arriving”(l.20) “Coke. Does she have any left? … Yesssss! Clever Ellie. Little bump just to get things started.” (l.30-33). Ellie also likes to party and the night before seemed to be pretty rough with booze, smoking crack pipe, taking drugs and ending up with some bruises. “rests her swollen cheek against her palm” (l.3) “her chest hurts.”(l.11) In the morning of this wild night, she wakes up and realizes that......

...A Gap of Sky
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One of the first things you put in mind, is the drug K. There are a lot different drugs on the market such as, marihuana, heroin and Coke. All of them can be equally dangerous; it all depends on the dose you take. But not only is drug dangerous, they also have an effect on the individual human being. If people starts talking about drugs, we do not react immediately, because nowadays it has reached to a lot young people, and we hear more and more about drugs. Even though drugs are, but are not supposed to be, a part of the underground environment, it always manages to reach the surface, and maybe wind up with some innocent people who actually don’t want anything to do with it. Some might get pressured to do it, others who’s at club and dancing, might get something in their drinks if they leave them unseen. And in the end we got those types of persons who do drugs, because they love it, or having a hard time getting out of it.
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...A Gap of Sky
We all know that partying and hanging out with friends is more fun than studying and doing homework. That is a part of youth. It is not always easy to be young. Sometimes you escape the reality by taking drugs or alcohol and end up unsuccessful. Nowadays young people have to think about their own life and school to become successful and not be distracted by their surroundings. Last but not least, not to be afraid to failure in life because anything is possible if you want to do the effort it takes. This is the case of Ellie in the short story “A Gap of Sky” written by Anna Hope.
The short story takes place in London. She lives in the epicenter in a modern society. It symbolizes a city of noise, filled opportunities, and people. This is an urban environment which affects her daily life. In the city there are plenty of places to get drugs and go to a nightclub or something like that. As described on (P. 2 l. 57-58): “There are people moving together, here in this part of London, moving with purpose, with meaning and Ellie is one of them.” With that she means that life in London and the big city is very intense and especially fast moving; there is no room for being lost in this environment. Ellie knows all about the behavior in the city, and all the street-names and buildings. But it is also a dangerous environment as we read on (P. 3 l. 90-91): “She dodges her way through the traffic, clotted like blood in the arteries nearing the heart of the city”. It is like...

...A gap of the sky
In this postmodern society, young people are feeling pressured and obligated to follow a certain life pattern. To go to school, with straight A’s, getting a good job, getting married and have kids. The expectation is higher than ever. In this short story; The gap of the sky written by the author Anna in 2008. The novel is about the main character Ellen who is scared to failure the expectations of her mom and dad have giving her, and it has driven her into alcohol and drugs abuse.
You can defiantly tell that the story begins in media res. It starts with the sentence “Its dark, but the wrong dark,” (p.1, l.1) The start of the novel is making the reader more confused, but at the same time it is making the novel more interested and activating. Later on in the story we get to meet the main character; Nineteen years-old Ellie hangover in her bed, from yesterdays night of drinking.
The main character Ellie had just moved to London by herself. Ellie is an university student that doesn’t seem to take the school seriously, mainly because the school is not interesting for her. “she thinks of the past year, of university, and it feels like sludge in her brain” (l.48-49, s. 2) Her parents actually made Ellie to take an education. “To mom? To dad?
Not them especially not them. It was their fault she was doing this bloody course in the first
place”.
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...Write an essay (900-1200 words) in which you analyse and interpret Anna Hope's short story "A Gap of Sky".
A part of your essay must focus on narrative technique and the importance of the city
setting.
A Gab of Sky - essay
To be young is the greatest thing on earth, especially when you have a lot of friends, do well in school, and remember to relax and enjoy life. In this short story Anna Hope tells us about a young girl, Ellie. She takes pleasure in life by using drugs in her everyday life. Ellie is a girl who was sent to college by her parents, nothing she really wanted, but something she had to. She dosen’t like being there, and she has the thought of running away, but something inside her tells her to stay. We are told that the night before she went to a party where she got very drunk and took a lot of drugs. She thinks the night through and she kind a remembers it all, however, she was under the influence of alcohol and drugs. Suddenly she recalls that she have to make an essay and have to print it out, but she dosen’t have any ink, and therefore she have to run out to get some.
Ellie is a nineteen year old teenager who lives in the heart of London, where her college is. Apparently she lives at the college and not at home with her parents. Ellie blame her parents for her being there, and she even calls it “this bloody course”. She stays up late and party, smoke crack pipe and do drugs. She dosen’t take her course serious and she really just want to hang out......

...A Gap of Sky
“A Gap of Sky” is a short story written by Anna Hope. This short story is about a girl named Ellie whose mind is depending on the setting in the story. As the setting changes, Ellie’s mind changes too. The narrator follows Ellie’s thoughts, reflections, actions and observations, which make her seem more reliable and honest with the readers.
The narrator of the short story is a third person narrator. Even though the narrator is a third person narrator the readers are still a part of Ellie’s thoughts and her point of view, which is clear because the language of the text is predominately influenced by a vocabulary of a teenage girl. This is clear, because Ellie swears a lot, and she has a teenage way of looking at things. This is clear when the narrator says: “Coffee plunged, poured, slurped; hot, fuck that’s hot. Anything else? Of course: printer, printer’s out of ink. Student shop too. Fine. Time? Ten minutes to get there. Shit.” (Line 35 – 36) This shows how the narrator makes Ellie a stereotypical teenager; she would rather party with her friends than stay committed to her schoolwork and the adults’ expectations from her.
Ellie’s mind guides the readers through the events of the story, and it is shown to the readers through her point of view. It is written with a technique called stream of consciousness, which makes the narrator more associated throughout the story. It is clear that the narrator follows Ellie’s consciousness, because the narrator uses......

...A Gap of Sky
“A Gap of Sky” by Anna Hope is a short story about a young girl named Ellie who is constantly on drugs. She is a student in London, and from the story we can tell that she is tired of education and lacking freedom so she goes against this by doing drugs. The story describes how someone can lose control of themselves when they are alone in a city, with no one to turn to for support. The story is told by a third person narrator, but the way that the story is written makes it seem like Ellie, the main character, is telling the story. The writer shows Ellie’s thoughts very clearly through the narrator using very casual language and different sentence structures to get inside Ellie’s head and describing everything in a way that shows she is very distracted. It is like a running view of what is inside her head and helps us understand that she is on drugs. We are almost reading her thoughts and are witnessing her search for freedom, a theme in the story.
The type of writing used in this story may seem like it is messy and unfocused, but it is actually very effective in showing the reader what it is like in Ellie’s head as her thoughts and actions are blended together and told by the narrator - “She’s going to have to work through the night, but it’s fine.” Here, we see her thoughts about having to work on an essay. She is also extremely distracted and constantly changes her mind and thoughts. After thinking it would be “fine” to work on the essay, she thinks back......

...Essay - A Gap of Sky
Everyone knows the feeling of realizing when we take things for granted. It does not matter whether it is persons, pleasures or love because it hurts a bit inside anyway. You wonder if it is too late to make it up, but it should never be too late. Ellie becomes aware of her problem and at last, she knows that she has done a good thing and the right thing to do as well.
Ellie is a wild teenager who wants to live life a little extreme. By the word extreme is meant that she party much, does not care much for school and she uses coke. Ellie develops throughout the story from being a nineteen-year-old drug abuser, who wanders around in her own small world in which it is all about drugs and she does not see the world or the people around her. In the store, she focuses her thoughts on the stone and her mother. She realizes that she has taken love and life for granted and how ungrateful and foolish that is. It is the point of no return, Ellie wakes up and start thinking about life and it values. She opens her eyes to the world she is living in. She becomes aware of the people, their love and the bonds of love between everyone. The feeling of being alive gives Ellie an ecstasy, which clearly is better than the intoxication of drugs. Her name means shining light or beautiful woman and it seems suitable because of her improvement.
Ellie walks around London city as she goes for printer ink and the other errands. She does not tell us much about where she is...

...A Gap of Sky
She was only nineteen, only living, and if that was sometimes a little extreme, well, how should life be lived? (L. 98-99)
In the Short Story “A Gap of Sky”, by Anna Hope, we meet a nineteen-year old girl whose name is Ellie. She wakes up after a day with party and drugs. She is a regular girl who lives in London and studies at a university. We follow her through her day were she thinks back on last night and the essay she have to write for the next day. If she doesn’t handle in the essay they will reconsider her on the course she is taking. The themes in this short story are freedom, drugs and responsibility.
Her life is a mess and she can’t really see it herself. She lives her life as wants too. She goes to parties and gets drunk and takes some coke and K and hangs out with her friends, were they go somewhere and get really high, so they will forget everything. And everyone laughing, everyone pissing themselves like it was the funniest thing ever. (L. 24-25) .She has ended up with some bruises from the party last night rets her swollen cheek against her palm. (l. 3). She is not feeling well after the abstinence from the drugs she has token last night.
Ellie’s language is very filthy because she swear a lot Fuuuuuuck… she shoots up from the under the duvet, scrabbles for her phone, finds it beside her pillow. 16:29. Oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit. (l. 12-13). She is not responsible person because she has brought herself in that situation that she might......